Atomino 2010

Rose Tarman is a photographer educated in Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design that currently lives in Boston, MA. She submitted to Atomino 2010 her sequence called Futures, and here are the words of the artist:

Where do we go from the present?  Does the now hint at what is to come?  How many chances are missed or given to change our personal futures?  Futures explores material temporality and the inaccessibility of personal spaces.  Each scene presents a questioning of possibility from spaces I visit daily yet each photograph prohibits the grounding and anchoring of those possibilities.  How do changes become attainable?  When do present moments end to solidify future events?  My series follows these trains of questions along with a slew of others to find significance in the potential of the future.

The physical realization of these ideas materialized as an installation.  I printed each image on 8x8” sheets of thin frosted mylar I had both smoothed and scratched beforehand.  Because of the properties of the mylar the ink never dried, allowing it to drip, mix and smudge.  Dust and dirt readily attached to the prints, displaying a progression of time, age and wear.  I hung each print on tracks of fishing line and installed them at different depths and heights in an alcove.  The tracks allowed them to be manipulated, pushed and pulled across the space, some became more attainable, some less, while all hovered on a fragile balance.

Find more of her work in Rose’s Official Site and at the New Photo Society blog.